Yes, the Solr Collections API allows you to pass in a set of explicit nodes (subset of the complete list of nodes in your cluster) to setup your Collection.
This the "createNodeSet" input parameter in the CREATE COLLECTION API - described as follows in the documentation: Allows defining the nodes to spread the new collection across. If not provided, the CREATE operation will create shard-replica spread across all live Solr nodes. The format is a comma-separated list of node_names, such as localhost:8983_solr,localhost:8984_solr,localhost:8985_solr. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/While-creating-collection-in-SolrCloud-can-we-manually-select-machines-nodes-tp4144593p4144614.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
